TLDR: employer classifying people as salary exempt but paying people by the hour. Looking for advice and resources on how to report them to a federal agency for investigation. I’m planning to file a state claim when I leave this job. In the meantime I’ll collect my evidence and play dumb. I’m posting this in antiwork because people usually have good advice here about this type of stuff. Thanks!
So basically I suspect my employer is classifying employees as salary exempt but paying us by the hour. I’ve had 3 instances where I wasn’t able to work 40 hours that was out of my control due to IT issues and mismatched holidays between the employer and client. Each week I was paid only for the hours I worked. Last week I was told by HR to use my PTO to cover the rest of the day due to an IT issue that forced me to end the day early. There’s a Glassdoor review left by someone else that also mentions wage theft (salaried employees being docked pay for arriving a little late or leaving a little early).
Does anyone have experience for reporting a company for wage theft? Is there a way to get the department of labor to do an investigation? The company has remote workers and HQ is based in a different region so it’s not just the state I live in. I know I’m not the only one they’ve stolen from. Fortunately I have not worked overtime but I know other people have and they deserve to be compensated for it.
The employer is a tech company that’s basically turned into a tech staffing agency. So the employer handles the payroll while I work on client projects. Should I let the client supervisor know about this issue? All they know is that they have a work contract through my employer and have nothing to do with payroll. I don’t know what the client’s reaction would be and I don’t want to be seen as causing “workplace drama”.